PookySeinAcc

The performances on this album are pretty savage, and aesthetically, I'm in love. The prominent bass, the cacophonous drumkit, that thick guitar tone. Sadly, beyond sparse bursts of mayhem or melodic greatness, they mostly stick to playing one section for a few bars, then onto the next, then the next, then solo, then probably return to a previous section. They're fine riffs, the uninspired composition just lets a lot of it down, especially during the entire middle section of the album.

A beautiful, somber series of short ambient tracks, feeling like vignettes from nondescript, dreary days. The individual ideas on display are truly bitterly melancholic and emotionally effective in the context of the album, but their short length and lack of progress in ideas, be it within the tracks or between them, leaves the experience to lose effectiveness as it goes on, especially since the material also weakens towards the end.
I figure the point is to have them be drab little snippets to ... read more

This album is the sonic embodiment of unfeeling destruction. It just sounds colossal. The marching rhythms, the fuzzy, wailing guitars, the thick rumble of the entire production. Beyond the first track, which is more of an intro, this is an utterly crushing, monolithic half hour.
It's like I can feel the charge down the mountainside alongside the descending riffs and tumbling drums. It's like I can see the horse, gone mad and without its rider alongside the careening bends and solos. It's like ... read more

Distant and unknowable, this album takes the surrealized, warbly Y2K aesthetic and uses it to build new soundscapes, all the while still evoking those beautiful 'wave-certified feelings of deep, longing nostalgia. The longer songs build naturally, their samples and synths lush and warm, enveloping and comforting. Though, admittedly, the shorter ones aren't as memorable.
The occasional use of vocals that drone on in that lazy summer afternoon way on some tracks, too, is a fitting ... read more